"China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies" discussed on Friday, March 28 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The World Bank Development Research Group

China Urbanizes
Consequences, Strategies, and Policies

In almost every country, it is the urban economy that drives growth and
development. Urban dynamics, policies and institutions have a large bearing on
how quickly living standards rise and how widely prosperity is shared, which
activities flourish and how many jobs they create. A huge challenge looms, and
China provides a unique vantage point from which to observe the gains to be
derived from urban development and to examine the pressures that it generates.
How China manages the process of urbanization is of vital interest for the
Chinese themselves and other countries - especially in South Asia - which are
also on the cusp of a surge in urbanization.

"China Urbanizes" provides just the kind of cross disciplinary analysis and
review of the latest research that the topic demands and the stimulus for
further study. For more information and to order the book please click here.

Friday, March 28, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
A light lunch will be served
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Vikram Nehru
Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and Private and Financial
Sector Department, World Bank
Mr. Nehru was formerly the Director of the World Bank?s Economic Policy and Debt
Department, which covers macroeconomic and debt issues for developing countries.
Prior to that Mr. Nehru worked extensively on issues of economic growth,
financial sector policy, and the implications of global trends and developments
on the economic prospects of developing countries in China, Indonesia and
Malaysia, among other countries. His latest work includes: "When is External
Debt Sustainable?"; "China 2020: Development Challenges in the New Century";
and "Indonesia: Imperative for Reform".

PRESENTERS
Shahid Yusuf
Economic Adviser, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Yusuf was the Director of the World Development Report for 1999/2000. Since
2000, he has served as Economic Adviser in the Development Economics Research
Group and manages a major research study on East Asia?s Future Economy. Mr.
Yusuf?s most recent publications are: "China's Development Priorities"
co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima; "Post Industrial East Asian Cities"
co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima; "Dancing with Giants" co-edited with L. Alan
Winters and "Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia" co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima
and Shoichi Yamashita.

Zmarak Shalizi
Independent Scholar and Former Senior Research Manager, World Bank
Mr. Shalizi was recently the Senior Research Manager for Infrastructure and
Environment Research in the Development Economics Vice Presidency at the World
Bank. In the last five years he has also assisted the Bank?s China team and WBI
in working with the National Development and Reform Commission, and the State
Environmental Planning Authority in China on energy, water, and sustainable
development issues. In 2001-2002 he was Director and Lead Author of the World
Development Report 2003 on Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World, which was
presented at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in
2002. Mr. Shalizi has held numerous senior positions in the Bank, and prior to
joining the Bank, worked in private consulting, and taught courses on economics
and on regional and urban planning techniques at MIT.

DISCUSSANTS
Yukon Huang
Former Country Director for China 1997-2004, World Bank
After leaving Beijing, Mr. Huang was Senior Advisor to the East Asia
Vice-President. He is currently editing a volume of studies on the spatial
dimensions of development in East Asia as a companion volume to the 2009 WDR.
Prior to his China assignment, he was Director for Russia and other Former
Soviet Union Republics of Central Asia from 1992 to 1997. He joined the World
Bank in 1976 as an Economist for S. Asia. Career positions include Chief of Bank
Assistance Policy with responsibilities for reviewing the Bank?s overall lending
and risk assessment policies; Lead Economist; and Country Operations Chief for
Asia. Mr. Huang supervised economic and policy work covering all ASEAN
countries as well as North and South Asia during his career at the World Bank.
Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Huang worked at the US Treasury and taught and
conducted research at various universities in the United States, Asia and
Africa. His publications have covered a range of issues concerning economic
development and have appeared in journals such as Journal of Political Economy,
Economic Journal and Economic Development and Cultural Change.

Pieter Bottelier
Senior Adjunct Professor of China Studies, School of Advanced International
Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Bottelier is an international economist, China scholar and consultant. Mr.
Bottelier worked at the World Bank between 1970-1998. He served as Senior
Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia, 1997-98; was Chief of the World
Bank?s Resident Mission in Beijing, 1993-97; held consecutive directorships for
Latin America and North Africa, 1987-93; was Division Chief for Mexico, 1983-87;
and resident Chief Economist in Jakarta, 1979-83. He also carried out various
assignments in Africa as an economic analyst between 1970-79. Before joining the
World Bank, Mr. Bottelier was Economic Advisor to the Zambian Ministry of
Finance, 1965-67 and 1968-70; consultant to UNCTAD on the global market for
non-ferrous metal, 1968; Lecturer at Amsterdam University, 1964; and Research
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1963.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies" discussed on Friday, March 28 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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| | shared, which activities flourish and how many |
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| | China provides a unique vantage point from |
| | which to observe the gains to be derived from |
| | urban development and to examine the pressures |
| | that it generates. How China manages the |
| | process of urbanization is of vital interest |
| | for the Chinese themselves and other countries |
| | - especially in South Asia - which are also |
| | on the cusp of a surge in urbanization. |
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| | "China Urbanizes" provides just the kind of |
| | cross disciplinary analysis and review of the |
| | latest research that the topic demands and the |
| | stimulus for further study. For more |
| | information and to order the book please click |
| | here. |
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InfoShop events are on LMS, please click here to register.

Friday, March 28, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

A light lunch will be served

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Vikram Nehru
Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and Private and
Financial Sector Department, World Bank
Mr. Nehru was formerly the Director of the World Bank?s Economic
Policy and Debt Department, which covers macroeconomic and debt
issues for developing countries. Prior to that Mr. Nehru worked
extensively on issues of economic growth, financial sector policy,
and the implications of global trends and developments on the
economic prospects of developing countries in China, Indonesia and
Malaysia, among other countries. His latest work includes: "When is
External Debt Sustainable?"; "China 2020: Development Challenges in
the New Century"; and "Indonesia: Imperative for Reform".

PRESENTERS
Shahid Yusuf
Economic Adviser, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Yusuf was the Director of the World Development Report for
1999/2000. Since 2000, he has served as Economic Adviser in the
Development Economics Research Group and manages a major research
study on East Asia?s Future Economy. Mr. Yusuf?s most recent
publications are: "China's Development Priorities" co-authored with
Kaoru Nabeshima; "Post Industrial East Asian Cities" co-authored
with Kaoru Nabeshima; "Dancing with Giants" co-edited with L. Alan
Winters and "Growing Industrial Clusters in Asia" co-edited with
Kaoru Nabeshima and Shoichi Yamashita.

Zmarak Shalizi
Independent Scholar and Former Senior Research Manager, World Bank
Mr. Shalizi was recently the Senior Research Manager for
Infrastructure and Environment Research in the Development Economics
Vice Presidency at the World Bank. In the last five years he has
also assisted the Bank?s China team and WBI in working with the
National Development and Reform Commission, and the State
Environmental Planning Authority in China on energy, water, and
sustainable development issues. In 2001-2002 he was Director and
Lead Author of the World Development Report 2003 on Sustainable
Development in a Dynamic World, which was presented at the World
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Mr.
Shalizi has held numerous senior positions in the Bank, and prior to
joining the Bank, worked in private consulting, and taught courses
on economics and on regional and urban planning techniques at MIT.

DISCUSSANTS
Yukon Huang
Former Country Director for China 1997-2004, World Bank
After leaving Beijing, Mr. Huang was Senior Advisor to the East Asia
Vice-President. He is currently editing a volume of studies on the
spatial dimensions of development in East Asia as a companion volume
to the 2009 WDR. Prior to his China assignment, he was Director for
Russia and other Former Soviet Union Republics of Central Asia from
1992 to 1997. He joined the World Bank in 1976 as an Economist for
S. Asia. Career positions include Chief of Bank Assistance Policy
with responsibilities for reviewing the Bank?s overall lending and
risk assessment policies; Lead Economist; and Country Operations
Chief for Asia. Mr. Huang supervised economic and policy work
covering all ASEAN countries as well as North and South Asia during
his career at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Huang
worked at the US Treasury and taught and conducted research at
various universities in the United States, Asia and Africa. His
publications have covered a range of issues concerning economic
development and have appeared in journals such as Journal of
Political Economy, Economic Journal and Economic Development and
Cultural Change.

Pieter Bottelier
Senior Adjunct Professor of China Studies, School of Advanced
International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Bottelier is an international economist, China scholar and
consultant. Mr. Bottelier worked at the World Bank between
1970-1998. He served as Senior Advisor to the Vice President for
East Asia, 1997-98; was Chief of the World Bank?s Resident Mission
in Beijing, 1993-97; held consecutive directorships for Latin
America and North Africa, 1987-93; was Division Chief for Mexico,
1983-87; and resident Chief Economist in Jakarta, 1979-83. He also
carried out various assignments in Africa as an economic analyst
between 1970-79. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Bottelier was
Economic Advisor to the Zambian Ministry of Finance, 1965-67 and
1968-70; consultant to UNCTAD on the global market for non-ferrous
metal, 1968; Lecturer at Amsterdam University, 1964; and Research
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1963.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES IN VENUE AND TIME: Film Screening as part of the Environmental Film Festival on Monday, March 17 at 3:00pm in H Auditorium

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Monday, March 17, 2008
3:00pm
World Bank H Building, E. Black Auditorium

For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org
Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes
calendar

MODERATED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, External Affairs, Africa Region, World Bank
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DISCUSSED BY
Mila Freire
Senior Adviser, Finance, Economics & Urban Development, World Bank

Barjor Mehta
Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank

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The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol
The Environmental Film Festival opens for its 16th year in
Washington, D.C. to play a role in addressing environmental issues
and challenges through the artistry of film. Illuminating some of
earth?s most critical environmental issues?the availability of
clean, fresh water, our energy future, the accelerating pace of
climate change and the environmental impact of war?the Festival
presents a broad spectrum of films that seek to inspire change in
our world. The program includes 115 films from 30 countries for 12
days in March. Twenty-seven filmmakers will be on hand to discuss
their films along with 86 environmental experts and special guests.
For more information, visit: http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Panel Discussion on Migration on Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00 pm in Preston Auditorium, WB

InfoShop, Development Prospects Group (DECPG) and Migration Working Group

Invite you to

A Panel Discussion on
The Role of Migration in Globalization
and Launch of the
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008

A debate of migration experts will be organized on the occasion of the Factbook
launch.

The Factbook attempts to present the numbers and facts behind the stories of
international migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income
groups of the world.

For more information and to order the book please click here.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group and International Trade Department, World
Bank
Mr. Dadush is the current chair of the World Bank' Migration Working Group. Mr.
Dadush heads the Development Prospects Group which is responsible for
monitoring, analysis and projection of the world economy, global financial
markets and international migration and their implications for developing
countries. He is also Director of the International Trade Department of the
World Bank. Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board
and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist
Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President, International, for Data
Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has also worked as a consultant with
McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark.

PANELISTS
Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-founder and President, The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mr. Papademetriou is co-founder and President of the Migration Policy Institute
(MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of
international migration. He is also the co-convener of the Transatlantic Task
Force on Immigration and Integration. Mr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens
Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), and is the Co-Founder and International
Chair Emeritus of Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on
Migration and Cities. Mr. Papademetriou has taught at the universities of
Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for Social Research. He has held a wide
range of senior policy and research positions that include: Chair of the
Migration Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S.
Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor?s Immigration Policy
Task Force; and Executive Editor of the International Migration Review.

Jason DeParle
Senior writer at The New York Times
Mr. DeParle is a senior writer for The New York Times and a frequent contributor
to The New York Times Magazine. Mr. DeParle joined the New York Times in 1989
and has written extensively about poverty in America. He is the author of
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation?s Drive to End Welfare
(Viking, 2004). For the past year, he has been writing about global migration
and its potential impact on development. He won a George Polk Award in 1999
for his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize.

Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development Prospects Group,
World Bank
Mr. Ratha's research reflects a deep interest in financing development in the
poor countries: leveraging remittances and migration for development; improving
country risk ratings; innovative financing mechanisms; future-flow
securitization and diaspora bonds; and South-South foreign direct investment.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asia at
Credit Agricole Indosuez; as an assistant professor of economics at the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and as an economist at the Policy Group, New
Delhi. He has also worked as a visiting lecturer at the Indian Statistical
Institute, New Delhi and helped build a CGE model of the Indian economy.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature? The Tail of Catastrophic Climate Change" discussed on Thursday, March 13 at 3:00 pm in JB1-080

*Due to high demand, please arrive early*

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| Thursday, March 13, | Climate Change: Mitigation & |
| 2008 | Adaptation; Policies & Protocols |
| 3:00 - 5:00 pm | --You thought you had heard it all |
| | but you would be wrong. Because you |
| Auditorium JB1-080 | have not heard Harvard Professor |
| World Bank J | Martin Weitzman?s exposition of the |
| Building | economics of catastrophic climate |
| 701 18th Street NW | change. Discussions on climate change |
| | economics and policy have so far |
| A reception will | neglected the possibility of |
| follow the | catastrophic climate change. Climate |
| presentation | scientists agree that though the |
| | probability is very low, climate |
| For non Bank staff, | change of cataclysmic proportions |
| please RSVP to | could occur, which could destroy life |
| infoshopevents@world | as we know it. What do economists - |
| bank.org | who always have something to say |
| | about anything - have to say about |
| | that? Well, not much, until Professor |
| | Weitzman. |
| | |
| | |
| | Professor Weitzman?s economic |
| | analysis - and, warning, it is quite |
| | technical - of the "fat tail" of |
| | climate change probability |
| | distribution tackles this vexing |
| | problem head-on. And in doing so, he |
| | challenges conventional economic |
| | orthodoxy. In his analysis, the |
| | standard economist toolkit breaks |
| | down because standard economics would |
| | have us believe that society should |
| | be willing to tradeoff an infinite |
| | amount in order to avoid even an |
| | infinitesimal chance of disastrous |
| | climate change. |
| | |
| | |
| | So will climate change be economics? |
| | Waterloo? Or has Professor Weitzman |
| | simply gotten it wrong? What does |
| | this mean for public policy? Can we |
| | say anything meaningful about how |
| | society should formulate and |
| | implement policy related to extremely |
| | low-probability but genuinely |
| | cataclysmic climate change? Good |
| | questions you ask, but what are the |
| | solutions? Are there solutions? |
| | |
| | |
| | Come find out what promises to be one |
| | of the most fascinating discussions |
| | on climate change between a brilliant |
| | economist and three outstanding |
| | panelists - a founder of the law and |
| | economics movement; a private sector |
| | millionaire; and a Nobel-prize |
| | winner. |
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PRESENTED BY
Martin Weitzman
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Mr. Weitzman is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has
been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Weitzman's current research is
focused on environmental economics, including climate change, the
economics of catastrophes, cost-benefit analysis, long-run
discounting, green accounting, and comparison of alternative
instruments for controlling pollution. The famous "Weitzman Theorem"
- that established when, under uncertainty, we should choose between
tradable permits and taxes in order to reach efficient levels of
pollution - is coined after him.

DISCUSSED BY
Richard Posner
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Mr. Posner is one of the most influential public intellectuals of
our times and a major voice in the law and economics movement. He is
a federal circuit judge and also a writer of books and articles in a
variety of fields. In his highly successful book "Catastrophes: Risk
and Response", he has focused his efforts on evaluating the public
policy response to catastrophic events such as species-destroying
climate change; planet-obliterating asteroids, and nuclear attacks.
Along with Professor Gary Becker, Mr. Posner maintains one of the
most popular blogs in the field www.becker-posner-blog.com that
explores current issues on economics, law, and policy in a dialogic
format.

Mr. Posner will inform the discussion from a public policy
perspective.

John Seo
Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Fermat Capital Management, LLC.
Based in Westport, CT, Fermat Capital manages over $2 billion in
catastrophe bond investments, making it one of the leading
catastrophe bond investors in the world. Prior to forming Fermat
Capital, Mr. Seo was Senior Trader in the Insurance Products Group
at Lehman Brothers, an officer of Lehman Re, and a state-appointed
advisor to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. He is one of the
pioneers in establishing the catastrophic risk industry in the
United States. He was recently covered in the widely-read New York
Times article ?In Nature?s Casino".

Mr. Seo will inform the discussion from a private sector
perspective.

Thomas Schelling
2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
Mr. Schelling joined the University of Maryland School of Public
Affairs after twenty years at Harvard. He has been involved in the
global warming debate since chairing a commission for President
Carter in 1980. Mr. Schelling believes climate change poses a
serious threat to developing nations, and drawing on his experience
with the post-war Marshall Plan, argues that addressing global
warming is a bargaining problem: if the world is able to reduce
emissions, poor countries will receive most of the benefits but rich
countries will bear most of the costs.

Mr. Schelling will inform the discussion from the development policy
perspective

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Finance Economics and Urban Department, World Bank
Prior to joining the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction in
the World Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics ranging from
infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural
economics. He has also worked in private sector consulting, for the
Thailand Development Research Institute, a nonprofit think tank, and
has held teaching and research positions at the University of
Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and Yale University. His
research has focused on the economic impact of global warming in
developing countries.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Presentation of "Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Actually Do?"

The World Bank Public Information Center and InfoShop
& Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency

invite you to a presentation

Adapting to Climate Change:
What Can We Actually Do?

The Experience of the UK and What We Can Learn From It

Chris West, head of the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), will discuss his
experience working with different actors and agencies in the UK to identify
concrete approaches to adapting to climate change. He and his team at UKCIP
have been working since 2002 at making climate research useful to decision
makers. In the process, they have helped develop tools and programs for local
governments, including the city of London; for UK businesses in general, and for
builders and developers in particular; and for several other agencies.

A particularly useful contribution has been a report entitled Climate
Adaptation: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-making that provides a step-by-step
framework to help planners, businesses, and government assess the risk posed by
climate change and work out how best to respond.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency, World Bank
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mitra was Chief of country operations for
Russia during the mid 1990s and then served as Director of the Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management department in the Europe and Central Asia region at the
World Bank. He has published widely on public economics, macroeconomics, and
development economics.

PRESENTED BY
Chris West
Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Mr. West is the Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and a Senior
Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. He
trained as a zoologist and joined the Natural Environment Research Council in
1991, where he worked on marine science and on international research
co-operation.

COMMENTS BY
Ko Barrett
Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief, Climate Assessments Services,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ms. Barrett is the Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief of the Climate
Assessments Services division of the United States government's National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior to that she was the Director of
the Climate Change Program at the U.S. Agency for International Development,
where she managed climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and
regions around the world.

Dennis Ojima
Senior Scholar, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Mr. Ojima is a senior scholar at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and
the Environment, where he is involved in the Global Change Program. He is also a
senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at
Colorado State University. His research areas include global change effects on
ecosystem dynamics, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change.
He was among the IPCC set of contributors awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
UKCIP helps organizations assess how they might be affected by climate change,
so they can prepare for its impacts. It was set up by the British Government in
1997 and is based at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. It works
by promoting stakeholder-led impact research and developing a range of common
tools and datasets to help organizations adapt to the impacts of unavoidable
climate change. These tools and reports discussing challenges of and
methodologies for coping with climate change are available at:
http://www.ukcip.org.uk/resources/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Presentation of "Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Actually Do?"

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Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency

invite you to a presentation
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| | Adapting to Climate Change: |
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| Chris West | Learn From It |
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| | |
| | Chris West, head of the UK Climate Impacts |
| | Programme (UKCIP), will discuss his experience |
| | working with different actors and agencies in |
| | the UK to identify concrete approaches to |
| | adapting to climate change. He and his team |
| | at UKCIP have been working since 2002 at |
| | making climate research useful to decision |
| | makers. In the process, they have helped |
| | develop tools and programs for local |
| | governments, including the city of London; for |
| | UK businesses in general, and for builders and |
| | developers in particular; and for several |
| | other agencies. |
| | |
| | A particularly useful contribution has been a |
| | report entitled Climate Adaptation: Risk, |
| | Uncertainty and Decision-making that provides |
| | a step-by-step framework to help planners, |
| | businesses, and government assess the risk |
| | posed by climate change and work out how best |
| | to respond. |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency,
World Bank
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mitra was Chief of country
operations for Russia during the mid 1990s and then served as
Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management department
in the Europe and Central Asia region at the World Bank. He has
published widely on public economics, macroeconomics, and
development economics.

PRESENTED BY
Chris West
Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Mr. West is the Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and
a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at
Oxford University. He trained as a zoologist and joined the Natural
Environment Research Council in 1991, where he worked on marine
science and on international research co-operation.

COMMENTS BY
Ko Barrett
Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief, Climate Assessments Services,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ms. Barrett is the Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief of the
Climate Assessments Services division of the United States
government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Prior to that she was the Director of the Climate Change Program at
the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she managed
climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and regions
around the world.

Dennis Ojima
Senior Scholar, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Mr. Ojima is a senior scholar at the Heinz Center for Science,
Economics, and the Environment, where he is involved in the Global
Change Program. He is also a senior research scientist at the
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State
University. His research areas include global change effects on
ecosystem dynamics, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to
climate change. He was among the IPCC set of contributors awarded
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
UKCIP helps organizations assess how they might be affected by
climate change, so they can prepare for its impacts. It was set up
by the British Government in 1997 and is based at the Oxford
University Centre for the Environment. It works by promoting
stakeholder-led impact research and developing a range of common
tools and datasets to help organizations adapt to the impacts of
unavoidable climate change. These tools and reports discussing
challenges of and methodologies for coping with climate change are
available at: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/resources/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Panel Discussion on Migration on Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00 pm in Preston

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Development Prospects Group (DECPG)
and
Migration Working Group

Invite you to

A Panel Discussion on
The Role of Migration in Globalization
and
Launch of the
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008
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| | The Factbook attempts to present the |
| | numbers and facts behind the stories of |
| | international migration and remittances |
| | for all countries, regions and income |
| | groups of the world. |
| | |
| | For more information and to order the |
| | book please click here. |
| | |
| | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| | 2:00 - 4:00 pm |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| | |
| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
| | |
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CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group and International Trade
Department, World Bank
Mr. Dadush is the current chair of the World Bank' Migration Working
Group. Mr. Dadush heads the Development Prospects Group which is
responsible for monitoring, analysis and projection of the world
economy, global financial markets and international migration and
their implications for developing countries. He is also Director of
the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Mr. Dadush was
previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board and Director of
Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The
Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President,
International, for Data Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has
also worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Italy and
Denmark.

PANELISTS
Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-founder and President, The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mr. Papademetriou is co-founder and President of the Migration
Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated
exclusively to the study of international migration. He is also the
co-convener of the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and
Integration. Mr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens Migration
Policy Initiative (AMPI), and is the Co-Founder and International
Chair Emeritus of Metropolis: An International Forum for Research
and Policy on Migration and Cities. Mr. Papademetriou has taught at
the universities of Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for
Social Research. He has held a wide range of senior policy and
research positions that include: Chair of the Migration Committee of
the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at
the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor?s
Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Editor of the
International Migration Review.

Jason DeParle
Senior writer at The New York Times
Mr. DeParle is a senior writer for The New York Times and a frequent
contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Mr. DeParle joined the
New York Times in 1989 and has written extensively about poverty in
America. He is the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids,
and a Nation?s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004). For the past
year, he has been writing about global migration and its potential
impact on development. He won a George Polk Award in 1999 for
his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize.

Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development
Prospects Group, World Bank
Mr. Ratha's research reflects a deep interest in financing
development in the poor countries: leveraging remittances and
migration for development; improving country risk ratings;
innovative financing mechanisms; future-flow securitization and
diaspora bonds; and South-South foreign direct investment. Prior to
joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asia
at Credit Agricole Indosuez; as an assistant professor of economics
at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and as an
economist at the Policy Group, New Delhi. He has also worked as a
visiting lecturer at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi and
helped build a CGE model of the Indian economy.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER - "India: The Emerging Giant" discussed on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 3:00 in JB1-080

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Office of the Executive Director for India, World Bank
Office of the Executive Director for India, IMF
Office of the Regional Vice President, South Asia
Bank-Fund India Club

invite you to a book presentation
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| | India: The Emerging Giant |
| | comprehensively describes and |
| | analyzes India's economic development |
| | since its independence, as well as |
| | its prospects for the future. |
| | Professor Panagariya argues that |
| | India's growth experience since its |
| | independence is unique among |
| | developing countries and can be |
| | divided into four periods, each with |
| | distinctive characteristics: the |
| | post-independence period, marked by |
| | liberal policies with regard to |
| | foreign trade and investment, the |
| | socialist period, a period of |
| | stealthy liberalization, and the most |
| | recent, openly liberal period. |
| | Against this historical background, |
| | Professor Panagariya addresses |
| | today's poverty and inequality, |
| | microeconomic policies, and issues |
| | that bear upon India's previous |
| | growth experience and future growth |
| | prospects. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | To buy the book, please visit: |
| |

www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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| | |
| | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| | 3:00 - 5:00 pm |
| | World Bank J Building, JB1-080 |
| | 701 18th Street N.W. |
| | |
| | |
| | For non bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | InfoShopEvents@worldbank.org |
| | A reception will follow the |
| | presentation |
| | |
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OPENING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
India's Executive Director, World Bank
Dhanendra Kumar has been the Executive Director for India,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan at the World Bank since November
2005. Mr. Kumar is a distinguished career civil servant from India
who, as a member of the Indian Administrative Service, has held
several key assignments during the last 38 years. His
specialization has been in the area of industrial and infrastructure
development, though he has had experience supervising different
social sectors as well. Before moving to the World Bank, Mr. Kumar
was the Secretary for Defense Production in the Indian Ministry of
Defense.

MODERATED BY
Adarsh Kishore
India's Executive Director, International Monetary Fund
Adarsh Kishore is presently Executive Director in the International
Monetary Fund, representing India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
During his long and distinguished career in the Indian
Administrative Service, Dr. Kishore headed Ministries such as Heavy
Industries and Public Enterprises and Statistics and Program
Implementation. Prior to taking up his assignment in the IMF, Dr.
Kishore was Finance Secretary to the Government of India. He has
published several articles and two books on economic issues.

PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR
Arvind Panagariya
Professor, Columbia University
Arvind Panagariya is Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political
Economy and Professor of Economics at Columbia University and
Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has
previously served as Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank
and Professor of Economics at University of Maryland, College Park.
Professor Panagariya?s presentation will draw on the analysis in his
recent book ?India ? The Emerging Giant? which will be available for
purchase and signing.

COMMENTS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank
Praful Patel is currently the Regional Vice President of South Asia
Region, World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1974 through the
Young Professionals Program. In a career spanning 29 years, Mr.
Patel has provided strategic leadership in managerial and corporate
positions at the Bank in regions as varied as Africa, East Asia,
Latin America and Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Vinod Thomas
Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Vinod Thomas is Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group at
the World Bank Group. He was Country Director, Brazil; Vice
President, World Bank Institute; Chief Economist, East Asia and
Pacific Region, among others, since joining the Bank in 1976. He was
the Staff Director for the 1991 World Development Report, titled
?The Challenge of Development? which assessed the world?s
development experience,and has authored over 12 books and numerous
journal articles.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE: Film Screening as part of the Environmental Film Festival on Monday, March 17 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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The World Bank Sustainable Development Network

invite you to a film screening as part of the 16th Annual Washington
DC Environmental Film Festival
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| | Worldwide, more | |
| | than one billion | |
| | people live in | |
| | slums, with as many | |
| | as one million of | |
| | them in Nairobi's | |
| | Kibera slum. | |
| | Kibera?s residents | |
| | struggle every | |
| | second to stay | |
| | alive, having to | |
| | scrape a living | |
| | outside the formal | |
| | economy, yet | |
| | somehow they | |
| | survive. | |
| | | |
| | SLUM SURVIVORS | |
| | tells the stories | |
| | of six people, like | |
| | you and me, living | |
| | in Kibera and their | |
| | remarkable courage | |
| | in the face of | |
| | adverse poverty. | |
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Monday, March 17, 2008
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org
Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes
calendar

MODERATED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, External Affairs, Africa Region, World Bank
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DISCUSSED BY
Mila Freire
Senior Adviser, Finance, Economics & Urban Development, World Bank

Barjor Mehta
Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank

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The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol
The Environmental Film Festival opens for its 16th year in
Washington, D.C. to play a role in addressing environmental issues
and challenges through the artistry of film. Illuminating some of
earth?s most critical environmental issues?the availability of
clean, fresh water, our energy future, the accelerating pace of
climate change and the environmental impact of war?the Festival
presents a broad spectrum of films that seek to inspire change in
our world. The program includes 115 films from 30 countries for 12
days in March. Twenty-seven filmmakers will be on hand to discuss
their films along with 86 environmental experts and special guests.
For more information, visit: http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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